Do you object to BAG INSPECTIONS at stores

[nero_bolt]

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Do you object to BAG INSPECTIONS at stores?

Do you object to staff asking to inspect your bag? (they are only doing their job) 

Will you shop at a  store that asks to inspect your bag or will you go elsewhere? 

Do bag inspections and security checks help to stop shop lifting and keep prices down?

If you object WHY?

Do you think that objecting to a bag inspection makes a person look guilty or they are guilty? 

Rememer that its a condition of entry at just about every major /medium/small store in Australia 

[cherry*135]

I got asked to show my bag once, when I was already a few steps out of the shop.. I said No, because the door checker person was chatting to the service desk person when I walked passed and that is why she missed me before I went out of the store.

[icyfroth]

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@am*3 wrote:

That ex-Liberal MP that got caught for shop-lifting (twice) had stolen goods in her bag.. just as well store staff asked to check it.. she may still be out there doing the same thing otherwise.

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yeah well that's not the point of the topic is it?

It's about DO YOU object to having your bag inspected,?

[cherry*135]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@am*3 wrote:

That ex-Liberal MP that got caught for shop-lifting (twice) had stolen goods in her bag.. just as well store staff asked to check it.. she may still be out there doing the same thing otherwise.

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yeah well that's not the point of the topic is it?

It's about DO YOU object to having your bag inspected,?

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It has been a point raised throughout the thread.. I think you mentioned it yourself. That shoplifters (esp pro ones) know to avoid the door check person... have other ways of taking stuff out.. in jumpers, tucked in babies blankets in prams etc.

I was just pointing out that people do get caught with stuff in their bags...so it is not a wasted effort on the stores behalf.

Not every shoplifter plans in advance, some are impulse shoplifters.

[**meep**]

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@the_hawk* wrote:

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@purple_haize wrote:

And according to the police, the shop can not force you to show your bags & if they keep you there while they call the cops..........and it turns out you have nothing to hide, you can take the shop to court.................those words straight from a policeman who my daughter knows.

Even the shop security guy has no authority to hold a customer unless they have proof that the customer took something.......

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Finally someone who has been given the correct info,  and clearly if you have nothing they have acted outside of the law and libel to pay damages if  they detain you without cause, and refusal to open a bag is not just cause.

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Did you know that there are state laws protecting merchants from 'false inprisonment' claims?   What does your State Law say?  In what circumstances are store employees legally authorised to detain suspected shoplifters?  What is, according to the Law,  considered as probable cause to suspect someone of shoplifting?  For what length of time are the store employees allowed to detain them?  

Purple Haize - do you know?

 edit: typo

[icyfroth]

So DO YOU object to having your bag inspected, Am?

Pardon if you have answered this previously, I haven't read back.

[*mrgrizz*]

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@donnashuggy wrote:

I think there is a difference between checking a myer bag when leaving david jones to someone looking in your handbag.

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they are all bags

[azureline**]

so, how do we feel about having our bags x rayed at the airport? and putting our handbags, keys and wallets on the conveyer belt?

[cherry*135]

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@icyfroth wrote:

So DO YOU object to having your bag inspected, Am?

Pardon if you have answered this previously, I haven't read back.

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Hi icy, have you  read all the posts in the thread or just mine?

If you read my last post carefully you will have noted I was OUT OF THE STORE before the store door checker approached me.

[cherry*135]

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@*mrgrizz* wrote:

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@donnashuggy wrote:

I think there is a difference between checking a myer bag when leaving david jones to someone looking in your handbag.

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they are all bags

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How many posters here that carry personalhandbags (say under A4 size) have been asked to open them by store staff.

How many posters here have seen other customers being made to open up their personal handbag of that size and under?

I don't think being asked to open personal handbags is a big issue.

I have never had to open mine nor have I seen anyone else having to do so. Only shopping bags carried by hand and backpacks.

Az- I guess if people don't like others  looking in their handbag then they won't go on flights that security xray/scans are  a pre-requirement for.

Lets not mention body scans either.

[ten*teeny*tiny*toes]

Good point 

There will be those with attitude who argue, hate rules and get all bent and twisted every time.